260 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
We learn from Mr. White that the remarkable Sobralia Cattleya is at 
last showing a bud in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, at Burford. 
It is a most interesting circumstance, for the species has been cultivated in 
several collections for many years, but no one has previously succeeded in 
flowering it. The bud appears on a small side shoot near the top of one 
of the tallest growths. 
CORYANTHES MACULATA. 
A fine specimen of this remarkable Orchid has just flowered in the 
Nepenthes House at Kew, producing four spikes of one to three flowers 
each. Like those of Stanhopea, they only last but a short time, but they 
are very remarkable in structure, as may be seen by the figure of the variety 
vitrina (Orch. Rev., iv., p. 305, fig. 15). The present one differs in being 
regularly spotted all over the sepals and petals. It was observed that the 
liquid began to exude from the glands at the base of the column soon after 
the flowers began to expand, and the drops followed each other at intervals 
for some considerable time. In one case the bucket was observed to be 
full up to the opening and a drop had trickled down the outside to the 
bottom. It must be an interesting sight to see these plants flowering in 
their native home. Mr. James Rodway, speaking of this particular 
species, remarks that ‘‘at seven in the morning the buds were a trifle 
loose, and they must have opened an hour later. At half-past eight, 
the bees were seen round the fully-opened flowers, and, an hour later, every 
pollen mass had been carried away. At the latter period, from six to eight 
bees were continually hovering round, crawling under the dome-like 
appendage above the cup, and dropping into the trap below. Their green 
and gold bodies flashed in the light as they buzzed round; on one of them 
a pair of pollen masses between the shoulders showed conspicuously 
against the metallic green back. . . . The problem which puzzles us 
most is how these bees, which we never see at other times, discovered the 
flowers were open. There was a perfume, but this was not very strong. 
No bees came in the afternoon or next day” (Timehri, 1893, pp. 269, 270). 
I also observed that the perfume was rather faint. The species was 
originally sent from Demerara by Mr. C. S. Parker, to the Liverpool 
' Botanic Garden, where it flowered in June, 1831, and was figured at plate 
3102 of the Botanical Magazine. 
R. A. RoLFe. 
